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1 major car brand is in BIG financial trouble (do you own one?)
Back before I had kids and we only owned 1 vehicle, we’d occasionally rent a car to deal with life’s various hiccups.
One time we wound up with a Nissan Versa and, honestly, it was pretty decent!
It was fairly roomy for a subcompact car, which is important to someone with a 6-foot-2 frame like me.
And at the time — in and around the Great Recession — it was cheap as hell.
I thought about getting one but ultimately passed.
My wife and I wound up buying a Honda off my mom when she moved away, and by the time we were in the market for another vehicle, we had two kids (i.e. not Versa-friendly).
I’ve only ever known two people who owned a Nissan.
I’ve never seen anyone as excited about a car as my work friend was when she bought a Nissan Qashqai.
And my in-laws owned a Nissan Murano once, though not for long (things kept going wrong with it).
So you could say that Nissan hasn’t really had a big presence in my life.
Considering all that, maybe I shouldn’t be all that surprised that Nissan is reportedly starting to find itself in deep financial trouble.
Could a company that makes close to 1.4 million cars per year really go bust … in the next 12 months?
According to one new report, things are starting to look bleak for the Japanese…